A drunk Royal Marine was taken into custody after making a scene at the airport. (Getty Images) There is something about sailing the open seas that comes with the stereotype of being a rum-soaked ...

The lyrics of the popular sea shanty "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?" have been changed by a Government-funded charity to remove any references to alcohol. Bookstart, a national programme ...

The words to What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor have been sung by countless numbers of children for generations. Having originated from the sailing ships in the 1800s and revived as a ...

A charity has defended using an alternative version of the popular children's nursery rhyme What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?, which removes alcohol and violence from the lyrics.

But the Bookstart charity says the re-writing of What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor? has "absolutely nothing to do with political correctness". The charity says that the shift from drunken ...